Little (2019)
Directed by Tina Gordon
Jordan Sanders, a take-no-prisoners tech mogul, wakes up one morning in the body of her 13-year-old self right before a do-or-die presentation. Her beleaguered assistant April is the only one in on the secret that her daily tormentor is now trapped in an awkward tween body, just as everything is on the line.
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But Hall’s range is more limited, and she is asked to maintain it only for a small portion of the film as compared to the main foil in The Devil Wears Prada.
The Tom Hanks classic Big meets The Devil Wears Prada, but not in a good way, in this lacklustre comedy about a beleaguered personal assistant called April (Issa Rae, best thing in the film), who turns the tables on her domineering company boss, Jordan (Regina Hall), when the latter is magically transformed back into her 13-year-old self (Marsai Martin, having fun).
Little sets the stage with the introduction of Regina Hall’s over-the-top Jordan, a demanding and seriously mean tech company owner who pesters her assistant April, played by Insecure’s Issa Rae, with ridiculous requests in line with how The Devil Wears Prada’s Miranda Priestly would beckon to Anne Hathaway’s character, which Rae easily comically quips at to herself for the audience’s enjoyment.
She is smart, tough and runs her tech company with such tyranny that she could make The Devil Wears Prada ’s Miranda Priestly look like a pussycat in comparison.
Not unlike Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada .
To establish the terror she inspires in her employees, Little steals a bit from The Devil Wears Prada.
Now played by the great Regina Hall (making the most of some very standard material), grown-ass Jordan is basically a rejected character from “Horrible Bosses.”